Tag: history

Victoria Island (45.421151Â°N 75.712228Â°W) is located in Ontario between Ottawa and Gatineau on the Ottawa River, where it narrows near the Canadian War Museum at LeBreton Flats. The island is accessible via the ChaudiÃ¨re Bridge, which connects Ottawa’s Booth Street to Rue Eddy in Gatineau; the Portage Bridge connecting the two cities passes over. The […]

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete […]

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete […]

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete […]

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete […]

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete […]

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete […]

Papa is a work of public art installed on Hull Island in Gatineau. It is an enclosure created by large, multicoloured, transparent glass walls. The interior space forms a small public plaza. Passersby can sit and observe the continually changing conditions produced by the light passing through the coloured glass walls.www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/art-monuments… #furniture #DIY #woodwork #woodworking […]

My visit to the Museum of Anthropology happened to coincide with their open day. It featured various exhibits and talks. There was live music too, including a set by a funk and blues band with the unlikely name of Dirty Bottom! They played fabulous music. Museum web site: www.moa.ubc.ca/ Band web site: http://bit.ly/2rqZChd #furniture #DIY […]

Unfortunately, I don’t know the name of the maker of this basket. It is not old. Many baskets are still being produced by local Cherokee weavers. . . these are descendants of the Cherokee who hid out when President Andrew Jackson conducted his inhumane long march, or “Trail of Tears”, in 1838, from western North […]